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(More customer reviews)These headphones provide an average sound quality. For a price of around $15 a customer should not realistically expect any one headphone to distinguish themselves in sound quality over any other. Indeed, Skull Candy headphones are manufactured like most budget headphones: from a common pool of nearly identically designed electronics, from a handful of overseas manufacturers, with only colors, accents, and branding to differentiate themselves from all the other competing products which come off the exact same manufacturing lines. In short, do not expect these to perform any better than the stock headphones which are sold with your MP3 player.
The build quality of these headphones, however, is sub-standard. During a workout when I start to sweat really hard, I have noticed that the headphones tend to short, and zap the inside of my ear. For me this is merely annoying, but for many customers I can imagine it would be intolerable. Also, the headphones have a rubber ring that separates the metal driver from your ear and helps hold the driver to the plastic frame, but the rubber ring isn't secured by anything except friction. After a few days in a pants pocket, the rings will fall off. Once it falls off it is difficult to reattach and gets lost easily. What is worse is that without the rubber ring, the small dot of glue that secures the driver to the plastic frame quickly wears out and the driver will end up dangling by its wires or fall off completely.
Certain design choices are also not necessarily bad, but not convenient either. The arm that goes over the back of the ear is adjustable both in height and can rotate 360 degrees. However, the arm is not nearly tight enough around the ear to require a variable height adjustment and I really doubt that many human ears vary in size enough to make this relevant. Also, if a person does adjust the height to anywhere other than all the way in or all the way out, there is nothing but rubber-on-plastic friction holding it in place. It will slip, especially during workouts. The ability to rotate is also more of a pain in than anything, because you may find yourself repeatedly twisting it back in place after it slips.
To the product's credit, at a price point where I have occasionally had to replace headphones once every three months, this product has doubled that life expectancy and keeps going. I have had to re-glue the driver to the frame - and that is annoying - but it still produces sound, and for $15 that's all I ask.
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